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  • Mother’s Little Helper

    Toys. Car seats. Clothes in a multitude of sizes. Diaper Genies. UltraSaucers, ExerSaucers and bouncers, oh my. Moms know these things can take over the

  • Magical Thinking

    JUSTIFICATION IS THE name of the game when it comes to determining a direct marketing budget. It’s no longer good enough to make generalizations about

  • It Could Get Ugly

    RETAILERS THAT STILL USE all-HTML e-mail and there apparently are a lot of them are in for a horrendous online holiday shopping season, according to Epsilon

  • Leading Questions

    HAVE YOU EVER RECEIVED A bad sales call? Perhaps the salesperson barreled through the script without bothering to engage in dialogue. Maybe he stammered

  • From the Big Chair

    BY THE TIME THIS article sees print, Howard Draft will be one delighted chairman. Or a very disappointed one. It all hinges on the review Wal-Mart is

  • The Fine Art of Seduction

    If Daniel Morel has a few days off, you might find him atop a peak in Colorado. Or he might be popping in on Tulane University in New Orleans, his MBA

  • E-mail Delivery Improves Slightly

    E-MAILBOX PROVIDERS blocked 19.2% of all permission-based commercial e-mail during the first half of 2006, according to a study by e-mail delivery firm Return Path.

    This average is a slight improvement over the 21% reported in the second half last year, the firm noted.

  • Attention to Retention

    TEN YEARS AGO, Frederick Reichheld’s The Loyalty Effect demonstrated to the world that a five-percentage-point decrease in customer defections could improve

  • Channel Challenges

    A number of years ago I was in a kickoff meeting for a large project focusing on multichannel order management. The goal was to integrate data from different

  • Match ‘Em Up

    KATHY’S DESIGNING HER NEW restaurant’s kitchen and is looking to buy several new high-end stoves, refrigerators and the like. As the salesman prepares